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Your content is yours
When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. By joining the IndieWeb, your content stays yours and in your control.
You are better connected
Your articles and status messages can go to all services, not just one, allowing you to engage with everyone. Even replies and likes on other services can come back to your site so they’re all in one place.
You are in control
You can post anything you want, in any format you want, with no one monitoring you. In addition, you share simple readable links such as example.com/ideas. These links are permanent and will always work.The IndieWeb is a community of independent & personal websites connected by simple standards, based on the principles of: owning your domain & using it as your primary identity, publishing on your own site (optionally syndicating elsewhere), and owning your data. Read more →
Join the IndieWeb
- Get Started Now! Or learn more: Why IndieWeb?
- Read This Week in the IndieWeb for weekly highlights, or view all recent contributions
- Join #indieweb chat (real-time log) and use & contribute to projects we're building!
Beyond Blogging and Decentralization
The IndieWeb effort is different from previous efforts/communities:
- Principles over project-centrism. Others assume a monoculture of one project for all. We are developing a plurality of projects. The IndieWeb community has a code-of-conduct.
- Publish on your site instead of emailing a list. Show before tell. Prioritize by making what you need, creating, iterating on your own site.
- Design first, protocols & formats second. Focus on good UX & using your own prototype features to create minimum necessary formats & protocols.
Perhaps most importantly, we are people-focused instead of project-focused, and have regular meetups where everyone is welcome.
Homebrew Website Club
Homebrew Website Club is a (bi)weekly meetup of creatives passionate about improving their own websites, sharing successes & challenges with a like-minded and supportive community.
Homebrew Website Club meets fortnightly (every other Wednesday*) right after work, 18:30-19:30, across cities and online.
- Some cities also have a 17:30-18:30 Quiet Writing Hour beforehand.
- Some cities meet weekly or monthly
Upcoming Homebrew Website Club meetups
IndieWebCamp
IndieWebCamp is a two day gathering of web creators building & sharing their own websites to advance the independent web. We spend a day discussing, and a day hacking & creating to empower ourselves and others to own our own identities and data.
Upcoming IndieWebCamps
Future IndieWebCamps are being planned, we also have maintained a full slate of online activities! Jump on in and help organize and/or suggest dates, and locations for more!
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- 中文 (Chinese)
- Italiano (Italian)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Русский (Russian)
- See also other-languages, and how-to-start-a-new-translation.
More Information
- Read posts about the IndieWeb
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- Participate in upcoming IndieWeb events
- Join #indieweb chat and discuss all things IndieWeb
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